WOW! I don't even know how to process all of what has been going on the past 3 weeks in our lives. I will start when this all happened....2 months ago. 2 months ago Mark got word that his old boss from Syracuse, NY was trying to get him to come back and work for him. Mark and I laughed at it, we remember saying that we would not move back anytime soon, that we were in the prime of our lives right now and loved everything about our lives down here. We prayed that night that if God wanted us to move back to NY he would have to be really obvious. After Hannah was born I started getting really sad, missing my family back in NY. Realizing that they would not be able to watch Hannah grow up and getting sad that she might not know them as much as Andrew does. Then I found out both of my sisters are pregnant and I got even sadder. I am the older sister who is supposed to take care of them when they have their babies. I started daydreaming of going over to Jenna's house after she has her baby and cleaning her house while she takes a nap. I day dreamt of spending a week at Caitlin's house to help her adjust to having her baby. All things that I cannot do from here. 5 days after having Hannah Mark got a call from one of his best friends in Oswego, Tim. Tim works for Harbridge (Mark's old company) and told Mark that he might want to check his work email because the company Mark works for now (Tower's Perrin) merged with another consulting group. Tim also said that Mark's old boss was planning on calling him that day to offer him his job back. Towers did merge with another company and has begun doing layoffs. Mark and I still kinda giggled at God, this is kinda obvious God we said. Mark and I have always knew we would move back up to NY we just never knew when. We started to thinking about making the move. The next day we were told by Mark's brother Ben that him and his wife were moving back to Kansas City. This wasn't a surprise to us, but it did seem that the Lord used this as the final straw to send up back to NY. There are many other details that happened over the course of the past 3 wks that have been very obvious winks from God.
Mark talked with his old boss and has accepted the offer to begin working at Harbridge Consultiling Group back up in Syracuse, NY. We are putting our house on the market this week, PLEASE pray for us! If we don't sell our house I don't know what we are going to do.... but God knows so I can rest in that. We are planing on making the move towards the end of October. Please pray for us, as you can imagine this has been a crazy time. Adjusting to 2 kids has been hard enough for me, but now on top of that I am obsessively cleaning to get the house up for sale, talking to realtors, making moving plans etc. I am too busy to take naps most days, so I am working on 3-5 hrs of sleep per night. Mark and I are starting to get really excited to move, when the stress clears for a minute we are really able to start to get this way. We know that God is blessing this decision, we are bittersweet about it though. We LOVE it here in SC. I am sooo sad to leave my friends down here and I love the weather, my house, and everything about it here. I will miss it alot!
One another note, Mark and I celebrated our 7 yr anniversary yesterday! WOW, I can't believe it has been 7 yrs. I love you Mark! Buckle your seatbelts, we are in for a crazy few months!
We would appreciate your prayers greatly during this HUGE time of change we are in!
